Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joey Hess | Hmm, you might have to do something mildly tricky with the limits stuff; | if the user did not turn it on you would have to manage | commenting/uncommenting the lines in the config file. Still seems quite | doable. db_get mailman/gate_news || true if [ "$RET" = "no" ]; then

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-23 Thread Brian May
On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > cvsd.conf is a trivial config file to parse and modify from what I can > see. > > port=`sed -n 's/^Port *\([^ ]*\).*$/\1/p' < /etc/cvsd/cvsd.conf` > > That's a reasonable way to get any value from it. I'm glad you do this What abo

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-22 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Joey Hess may or may not have written... [snip] > You may choose to remove the chroot jail but you will also > loose all the repositories inside the chroot jail. If you have not > | backed up your repositories you want to keep, do not remove it now; > | manually remove it later o

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Jesus Climent wrote: > How much of POSIX compliant is dash? I have not been able to reproduce your > abcde bugs [1] [2] by using ksh/sh/bash in POSIX mode. Well I think the abcde bugs are probably dash bugs. But aside from bugs it's as posix compliant as anything else in debian, as far as that goe

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-22 Thread Jesus Climent
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 10:24:01AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > This looks like it may be due to a bug (or incompatibility) in zsh. Do you > > have /bin/sh set to zsh? I have some strange results if I use zsh to > > process the postinst. I'll do some more testing. Somehow the result of the > >

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-20 Thread Daniel Martin
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - cvsd/listen: >s/cvsd will listen on/on which cvsd will listen/ > # Avoid dangling preposition This is an English usage question of the sort that will get the English and Linguistics departments at some universities to start leaving nasty notes

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:03:40PM +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote: > >s/zero (0)/0/ # Apparently writing it out has the possibility to make > > # someone enter the number the wrong way so why not just > > # not write it out? > I spelled out zero because some

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Arthur de Jong wrote: > I have received a Brazillian translation of the debconf questions that I'm > merging into cvsd (bug #187795). I saw the German translation at > http://ddtp.debian.org/cgi-bin/ddtp.cgi?part=debconf&package=cvsd > before but I never saw the page you linked (very useful page

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-20 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Arthur de Jong wrote: > > Ok, could you review my cvsd package for me for correct debconf usage > > and tell me what you do and don't like? > > Thanks for taking advantage of that offer. (So far you're the only one.) > I am ccing this to -devel just

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
One more thing that I didn't notice until purging the package. In the purge question, you refer to "selecting yes" and "answering no". Don't do that, some debconf frontends do not use yes or no; the user might be staring at a check box when they see that text. Just ask the question, something like

debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
Arthur de Jong wrote: > Ok, could you review my cvsd package for me for correct debconf usage and > tell me what you do and don't like? Thanks for taking advantage of that offer. (So far you're the only one.) I am ccing this to -devel just because. All of the debconf questions are pretty well wor